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60 British phrases that will confuse anybody who didn't grow up in the UK
INSIDER via Yahoo News UK· 4 days ago"How was the hostel?" "...to report. Just your bog-standard dorm, really." The "boot" of a car is...
Common words and phrases you had no idea originally came from Scotland
Daily Record via Yahoo News UK· 7 days ago...Mail' in this context is derived from the Old Norse word for agreement and was used to describe a...
Bizarre British foods the rest of the world don't understand
LoveFOOD via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFrom the fancy to the frugal, the slightly strange to the stomach-churning, we look at the weirdest...
Canadian rhapsody – Frank McNally on a party to celebrate Canada Day
The Irish Times· 4 days agoExploring darkest Ranelagh on Thursday evening, Google maps in hand, I was interrupted by a smiling...
‘The Imaginary’ Review: What’s a Pretend Friend to Do When His Human Creator Outgrows Him?
Variety via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoA decade ago, legendary director Hayao Miyazaki retired, sending Studio Ghibli’s team of animators...
Wimbledon was where young pretender Murray became a man
Daily Mail· 1 day agoWe could see what Wimbledon threw at him. We saw how he faced up to that. Murray always gave what...
Tom Collins: Whatever the general election result, we are hitched to a sinking ship
The Irish News· 21 hours ago“Change” is Keir Starmer’s cry. ‘More of the same’ is what we will get. For the past 14 years, the ...
Viggo Mortensen, With Czech Skills, and Aliens Help Open Karlovy Vary Fest With a Bang
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News UK· 4 days agoViggo Mortenson, as well as jury members Geoffrey Rush and independent film veteran Christine Vachon...
Here’s how bad it is for Sunak: I went to the most Tory seat in Britain – and the word on people’s...
The Guardian· 17 hours agoIf politics is a soap opera, the people of Canvey Island switched off a few years ago. This is England at its most Conservative, literally: the island is in the constituency ...
Right on Q – Paul Clements on a capital letter
The Irish Times· 1 day agoOne hundred and fifty years ago the now familiar Qwerty keyboard was patented by the American politician and inventor Christopher Sholes. Effectively a...